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Arranged by theme according to the basic elements by which many cultures on earth interpret themselves and their place in the world - earth, air, fire, water - the writings consider actual and assumed connections in the greater scheme of functioning ecosystems.

Pure Fire is a history of self-defense as it was debated and practiced during the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. Moving beyond the realm of organized protests and demonstrations, Christopher B. Strain reframes self-defense as a daily concern for many African Americans as they faced the continual menace of white aggression.

The central subject in Julie Carr's debut poem collection is marriage. Intimacy is examined, not only in terms of the erotic, the quotidian, and the contractual, but also in terms of the intertextual: the pact between reader and writer and the blending of texts that results.

In this collection of essays woven with poems and folklore, Judith Ortiz Cofer tells the story of how she became a poet and writer. A native of Puerto Rico, Cofer came to the mainland as a child. Torn between two cultures and two languages, she learned early the power of words and how to wield them. Later, as an adult, demands from her family and her profession made it difficult for Cofer to find time to devote to her art, but her need and determination to express herself led to solutions that can help all artists challenged with the limits of time. Cofer recalls the family cuentos, or stories, that inspire her and shows how they speak to all artists, all women, all people. She encourages her readers to insist on the right to be themselves and to pursue their passions. A book that entertains, instructs, and enthralls, Mujer frente al sol will be invaluable to students of poetry and creative nonfiction and will be a staple in every creative writing classroom as well as an inspirat

This environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta places the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. It reveals the human aspects of the region's natural history, including land reclamation, slave and sharecropper economies, ethnic and racial perceptions of land ownership and stewardship, and even blues music.

Consider just two facts about the damage done to the Everglades: half of its 14,000-square-mile expanse is gone, and saving what is left will cost at least $8.4 billion. In Liquid Land, Ted Levin guides us past the dire headlines and into the magnificent swamp itself, where we come face-to-face with the plants, animals, and landscapes that remain.

As turbulent social and economic changes swept the South in the first half of the 20th century, education became the flashpoint. Ann Short Chirhart's study is the first to analyze such modernizing events in Georgia.

Chronicles daily life on the battlefront, and also records interactions between blacks and whites, men and women, and northerners and southerners during and after the war. The author tells of being born into slavery and of learning, in secret, to read and write.

In the late 1860s South Carolina Klansmen unleashed a reign of terror over blacks, and even some whites, in the state, detailed in this gripping study.

In 1955 the Forbes magazine list of America's largest corporations included 18 with headquarters in the Southeast. By 2002 it had grown to 123. The essays collected here consider this dynamism, and the region's place in that ever-accelerating, transnational flow of people, capital, and technology known as ""globalization.

A new type of historical guide, this book features more than one hundred photographs and illustrations of thirty key sites in and around the Chickamauga battlefield. Civil War scholars and enthusiasts will find a valuable new source for pondering tactical moves and unravelling historic controversies.

The private and public writings in this volume reveal the early relationship between renowned Civil War diarist Sarah Morgan (1842-1909) and her future husband, Francis Warrington Dawson (1840-1889). This is a selection of their letters along with articles that Morgan wrote for the ""Charleston News and Courier"".

Jubilee is the historical and fictional account of the life of Margaret Walker's great-grandmother, from slavery through Reconstruction. Here, Carmichael examines the novel's genesis and composition, the process of revision and publication, the structure and narrative strategies and more.

Focusing on Alabama's textile industry, this study looks at the motivations behind the ""whites-only"" route taken by the Progressive reform movement in the South. In the early 1900s, northern mill owners seeking cheaper labour and fewer regulations found the South's doors wide open.

This history reveals the Richmond community as a series of dynamic, overlapping networks to show how various groups - including merchant families, the city's largest black church congregation, ironworkers and militia volunteers - understood themselves and their society.

Agent of Empire is a detailed study of creative works inspired by the escapades of the American soldier of fortune William Walker.

This prominent planter, patriarch of his Highland Scots clan in America and the ranking general from Georgia in the Continental army, is often simply known as the man who mortally wounded Button Gwinnett. This biography fleshes out the man who lived during a crucial period in history.

The National Council of Churches established the Delta Ministry in 1964 to further the cause of civil rights in Mississippi. This work is a full-length history of one of the largest and most enduring civil rights organizations in the Mississippi movement.

Winter, when plants are dormant and leaves may have fallen, is a challenging time to identify woody flora. Designed for winter, with almost 600 illustrations, this taxonomic guide describes species by their twig, bud, and bark characteristics. Covers the trees, shrubs, and woody ground covers that grow without cultivation in the Southeast USA.

From McCullers' birth in Columbus, Georgia in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, this book covers every significant event in and aspect of, the writer's life: her rise as a young literary sensation; her eccentricities and entanglements; her debilitating illnesses; and her travels.

Disturbing, ironic, haunting, brutal. What inner struggle led Flannery O'Connor to create fiction that elicits such labels? Here, Sarah Gordon shows a writer whose world was steeped in male presumption regarding women and creativity.

Billingsley shows how the analytic category of kinship can add new dimensions to our understanding of the American South. In this text, she studies a southern family to show how the biological, legal and fictive kinship ties between him and some 7000 of his descendants helped shape the interior South.

Having encountered the Greensboro Guards through their Civil War diaries and letters, G. Ward Hubbs became interested in the connections between the Guards and the town for which they were named. In this account he argues that they became an important part of their community.

The 69 sonnets in this book form a multidimensional, kaleidoscopic crossroad where organic form, awareness, memory, history, intellect and the human heart merge into specificity, like light at the end of a tunnel.

These biographies aim to gain Mississippi's womens their place in its written record. The women whose stories are told here range from Felicite Girodeau, who was both a person of colour and a slaveholder, to Vera Mae Pigee, who ""mothered"" the civil rights movement in the Mississippi Delta.

The 1954 Brown v Board of Education ruling is a watershed event in the fight against racial segregation in the US. Examining how our historical understanding of segregation has evolved since then, this book suggests that the Brown decree and the civil rights movement have accomplished more than the hard statistics of black progress can reveal.

In a series of first-person letters, essays, manifestoes and notes to the reader, Kim Stafford shows what might happen at the creative boundary he calls ""what we almost know"". By recommending ways for writers to seek beyond the self for material, he aims to demystify the process of writing.

This work offers an illuminating assembly of facts about biodiversity and a straightforward analysis of the legislative stalemate surrounding the Endangered Species Act. Burgess surveys the history of the conflict over the legislation and the heated issues regarding its enforcement.

A lifelong fascination with primates led Dale Peterson to Africa, which he criss-crossed in hope of sighting chimpanzees in the wild. With the good-natured fatalism of the tested traveller, Peterson tells of trains and riverboats, opportunities and ecotourists, rain forests and shanty towns.

This text covers the life and work of Christine Frederick (1883-1970) and reveals an important dilemma that faced educated women of the early 20th century. Contrary to her role as home efficiency expert, she epoused the 19th century ideal of preserving the virtuous home - and a woman's place in it.